Comic via Cooler Heads

We flew from Boston to Philadelphia on Friday evening, during the tail end of a snowstorm. The airport was pretty empty, so the TSA folks were bored and punchy. When I got to the security checkpoint (where there was no line), I did all the right things–took off my shoes, placed everything in bins, carried my ID and boarding pass with me through the metal detector.

“Good for you!” said the TSA guy, a tall dude in his 20s, as he examined my boarding pass. “You’ve followed government orders. You’ve conformed!”

“I don’t want to stand out,” I said.

“That’s right,” he said, a perfect mix of joking and absolute truth. “Just follow the crowd. Be a sheep.”

I guess it’s true: The TSA does have some actual humans working for it.